Catalpa Creek: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Mississippi

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Chelydridae
Macrochelys temminckii (Troost 1835)
Franz and Quitmyer 2005
Reptilia - Testudines - Emydidae
Emydoidea blandingii (Holbrook 1838)
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Geochelone crassiscutata (Leidy 1889)
recombined as Hesperotestudo crassiscutata
Gopherus polyphemus (Daudin 1802)
Franz and Quitmyer 2005
This specimen is a water-worn XIPH
Geochelone sp. Fitzinger 1835
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Mississippi County:Lowndes
Coordinates: 33.5° North, 88.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.5° North, 88.4° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified silty,sandy claystone
Environment:marine indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:glacial
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:164396
Authorizer:M. Uhen, E. Vlachos Enterer:L. Harfoush, E. Vlachos
Modifier:M. Uhen
Created:2014-12-02 04:18:36 Last modified:2014-12-04 10:10:58
Access level:the public Released:2014-12-02 04:18:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

53644. J. A. Holman. 1976. Paleoclimatic Implication of "Ecologically Incompatible" hereptological species (Late Pleistocene; Southeastern United States). The Herpetologists' League 32(3):290-295 [M. Uhen/L. Harfoush]

Secondary references:

66358 R. Franz and I. R. Quitmyer. 2005. A fossil and zooarchaeological history of the gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) in the Southeastern United States. Bull. Fla. Mus. Nat. History 45(4):179-199 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]